Effie Gray

This film (drama)Also known asEffie Gray，is aUKProducerwomen sex，At2014Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating6.5(For reference only)。

John Ruskin was an artist, poet, architect, and thinker of the Victorian era in England, who also supported and nurtured a group of young artists. However, it was his marriage to Effie Gray that became a topic of social news. Six years into their marriage, Effie requested to terminate it, citing that they "had never truly been husband and wife." The case became a subject of conversation. John Ruskin admitted that they had never consummated the marriage, but defended himself by claiming that his wife’s "certain condition" damaged his passion. After the divorce, Effie Gray married the painter John Everett Millais, who had been supported and promoted by John Ruskin. According to Emma Thompson, this new film will start on the couple's wedding night and unravel the mystery through John Ruskin's experiences and personality. 2011.08.17. Dakota replaces Saoirse as the lead in 'Effie'. Dakota Fanning replacing Saoirse Ronan in Emma Thompson's 'Effie' August 16 Source: Deadline Just last November, one Casting Tidbits update revealed The Lovely Bones star Saoirse Ronan landed the title role in Effie, a biopic about Effie Gray, the wife of English art critic John Ruskin, who became entangled in a famous Victorian love triangle. Now Deadline reports Dakota Fanning will star in the period drama from writer/actress Emma Thompson, which chronicles the strange romance, or lack thereof, between Gray and Ruskin. Despite her beauty, Ruskin was said to be disgusted with Gray's body, did not consummate the marriage, and annulled it, allowing her to marry Ruskin's protégé John Everett Millais. Though Orlando Bloom was once attached to play Millais, apparently Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio) has stepped into the role. In addition, Thompson will also star in the film as Lady Eastlake, who takes Effie under her wing when it becomes clear the union was destroying the young woman. Her husband Greg Wise (Johnny English) will play Ruskin while Julie Walters (Harry Potter franchise) and Derek Jacobi (The King's Speech) will play his parents. Finally, Edward Fox (Gandhi) is in talks to play Eastlake's husband Sir Charles, a man who was not only fed up with Ruskin and his radical ideas but also the main patron of the Royal Academy which held sway over what constituted fine art. Richard Laxton (An Englishman in New York) is directing the film, which begins shooting in Scotland on October 17th, with filming to follow in London and Venice as well. The cast has been shuffled on this project for a while, with Carey Mulligan once attached to the title role, but a copyright infringement claim held up the film, which resulted in scheduling conflicts for the previously attached cast members. Producer Don Rosenfeld says, "It's Emma Thompson’s first original script after doing several fine adaptations, and it gets to the heart of Victorian England." Though this sounds a bit more along the lines of her work on Sense and Sensibility as opposed to Nanny McPhee, her work on the page should make for a great British drama down the road.